[eccr] CFP Race and Kids Culture (Journal Issue)

>Essays are sought for a special issue of Cultural Studies<=>Critical 
>Metholodologies
>on Race and Kids Culture. The special issue will speak to a set of shared 
>concerns.
>As corporations increasingly structure and media almost entirely saturate 
>the lives of
>children, scholars and social critics have rightly begun to explore the 
>articulations of
>power, culture, and identity. Inspired particularly by the emergent field 
>of cultural
>studies and informed by the post-marxist, feminist, and post-structural 
>frameworks,
>they have interpreted the ways in which toys, games, movies, television, 
>music, and
>literature educate, imprint, and otherwise interpolate them to embrace 
>normative
>values and institutions.  Surprisingly, race has received relatively 
>little attention.  In
>fact, outside of studies of schools, the racial identities and ideologies 
>animating kids
>culture have been granted limited attention.  This special issue seeks to 
>redress this
>oversight.
>
>Specifically, it examines the production of race in kids (popular) 
>culture.  Each
>contribution unpacks the entanglements of racialization and socialization 
>in and
>through critical readings of popular texts. Presently, participants 
>examine a range of
>topics including children's books on the internment of Japanese Americans, 
>Bratz
>Dolls and the browning of America, the intersection of race, gender, and 
>sexuality in
>recent animated films, video games as (post)modern minsterly, and white 
>nationalist
>websites aimed at children.
>
>Completed essays would be due to me early next year, running ideally 20-30 
>pages
>in length.
>
>Interested individuals should send either an abstract or complete 
>manuscript along
>with a brief cv to C. Richard King (crking /at/ wsu.edu) no later than 1 July 2005.
>
>
>C. Richard King
>Associate Professor
>
>Comparative Ethnic Studies
>Washington State University
>
>http://libarts.wsu.edu/ces/richard_king.php

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